How to Use hubris in a Sentence

hubris

noun

• His failure was brought on by his hubris.
• But hubris seemed to get the better of this team again.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 16 Mar. 2018
• Achilles has his heel and his hubris to go along with his great strength.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• This hubris is the root cause of the dire problems now facing our seas.
  — CNN, 14 June 2019
• There’s a hubris in finding fault for the sake of finding fault.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• The Cold War has ended, but this kind of hubris remains.
  — Patrick Iber, New Republic, 30 Oct. 2017
• At the height of her hubris, Emily sneaks her fork over to my plate and steals a potato.
  — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 27 Dec. 2022
• No character on the show more vividly skewers the hubris of the 1%.
  — Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2019
• Thanks to my hubris, what was supposed to be a half hour of heating time dragged on.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• But there's a lot of hubris that continues to be attached to Putin and his view of the war right now.
  — CBS News, 26 Feb. 2023
• Those who still believe in democracy must bury the hubris that caused the old world to fail.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2022
• Those nations that remain should have seen enough to know the dangers of hubris, though.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 June 2018
• This is a bell-jar comedy about mankind trapped in its own hubris.
  — Armond White, National Review, 23 Feb. 2022
• But, throughout the book, Schwartzel warns of the risks of such imperial hubris.
  — Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
• The hubris was eclipsed only by the sinking of the Titanic three months later.
  — Chris Pomorski, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
• Fortunately, an item on the next page of the menu rescued me from my own spicy hubris.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• The war in Afghanistan has been defined in part by muddled thinking, hubris about what the U.S. can achieve and an endless...
  — WSJ, 16 Apr. 2019
• The hubris of adults trying to protect their power, at the expense of victims, came with a price.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• He’s lost everything because of his hubris and his pride and his ego.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
• His sin was more of hubris and arrogance than of lost money.
  — Neil Senturia, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• The story involves money and hubris and risk, with a human toll.
  — Elise Young, Bloomberg.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Nobody is coming to teach us lessons about our hubris, and there is no appealing the laws of physics.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 4 Sep. 2021
• Even some Democrats echo that point, warning their party against hubris.
  — NBC News, 4 June 2018
• To those from other specialties, this broad claim might smack of hubris.
  — Fortune, 26 Nov. 2019
• The sinking of the Titanic has long been a cautionary tale about the dangers of hubris.
  — Danny Lewis, Smithsonian, 5 Jan. 2017
• Yet even opposition politicians ought to be wary of the Supreme Court’s hubris.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• The hubris of this discourse and its presumptions about the state of the race make for some bleak comedy in hindsight.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2020
• While two Activision studios worked hard to make the graphics crisp and new, there's some hubris here.
  — Harold Goldberg, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
• What if the manuscript is in some sense smarter than us all, its anonymous author, or authors, laughing from the grave at the hubris of reason?
  — Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024
• There was at least some hubris in Weezer’s 30th anniversary Blue Album tour announcement.
  — Evan Minsker, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024